State v. Hufford’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Brown (1995), State v. John (1989)
2 federal appellate · 147 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Davis v. Alaska · Pointer v. Texas · Michigan v. Long
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““General Statutes § 53a-65 (7) (B) defines ‘use of force’ as ‘use of actual physical force or violence of superior physical strength against the victim.’ ” State v. Hufford, 205 Conn. 386, 391 , 533 A.2d 866 (1987).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] verdict rendered on a single count charging alternative methods of committing the same crime may be upheld only if there is sufficient evidence to support the verdict as to each alternative charged,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n information which charges two or more separate offenses in the alternative is fatally defective because of its failure adequately to apprise the defendant of the specific charge against him”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.